new-front en · VERB
Etymology
From new- + front.
Meanings
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(ambitransitive, archaic) To put a new front on, or receive a new front.
[…] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]
1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:[…] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances […]
1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| new-fronted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| new-fronted | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| new-fronts | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| new-fronting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |